Trump Tariffed Everything Canada Grows. This Ancient Seed Never Came Up.

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Pull a paper bill out of a wallet, and there's a real chance a Saskatchewan seed is part of the reason it hasn't fallen apart. Flax fiber gets woven into currency paper worldwide, including American money, because it survives folding and washing in a way ordinary wood pulp can't. Canada grows more flaxseed than any other country on Earth and exports roughly 80% of the world's supply, almost entirely from Saskatchewan. China is actually the largest buyer (40%, mostly for cooking oil), but the US takes a real quarter of it — feeding bakery products, pet food, and the omega-3 supplement aisle, riding the exact same "superfood" wave that boosted canola a generation earlier. Through two years of an escalating trade war — tariffs on oats, canola, potash, salt, steel, lumber, and mustard — flax has never come up once. Not exempted by name. Just never noticed. Canadian flax production nearly DOUBLED in the most recent year on record, and still, nothing. The honest other side: this is a real

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